On our reading list at Vanilla

Linc

Vanilla developers circulate article links internally to highlight areas of interest to us. Some of those areas, from more technical to more cultural:

• PHP language-related proposals and changes.
• Analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of using PHP.
• General programmer theory and thoughts on coding.
• UI design, mobility, and technology trends that effect us.
• Internet-enabled discussions and community.
• Internet-based trolling and harassment.
• Developer culture critiques & thoughts.
• Diversity and inclusion in developer teams and technical companies.
• Managing a team of developers (or people generally).
• How our work outwardly effects other people for better or worse.

I'm interested to hear about articles and posts you've read that you feel fit in this vein. I may edit this OP from time to time to include my own curation of what's shared. Feel free to start a new discussion about an article instead if you think there's more to talk about.

Here's a few to start the list, courtesy of my browser bookmarks:

• Contempt Culture
• Field experiment on posting rules in discussions
• Task Performance Indicator: A Management Metric for Customer Experience
• The inaccessible web: how we got into this mess
• Taking PHP seriously (via @Todd)
• And it’s gone —The true cost of interruptions
• Your Team In Four Dimensions
• Agile Manifesto
• Writing good code: how to reduce the cognitive load of your code
• Be Careful What You Code For
• My condolences, you’re now the maintainer of a popular open source project
• The way we evaluate developer performance is broken
• Product strategy means saying no

What's on your reading list lately?

rbrahmson

That first link on Contempt Culture is one we should all adopt, especially on the public community forum.

River

• the ability to accept constructive criticism without playing the victim card.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/dailymuse/2012/11/07/taking-constructive-criticism-like-a-champ/#4e9dbd458b7b

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/sense-and-sensitivity/201209/feeling-victim

http://www.positivityblog.com/index.php/2009/10/09/how-to-break-out-of-a-victim-mentality-7-powerful-tips/

DNA seen through the eyes of a coder (Dead code, bloat, comments ('junk dna'))

Linc

• The Dirty Dozen Roadmap Roadblocks
• Pay the Price for Open Source
• Conference video: No one expects the woman code troll - Jenn Schiffer, Engineer/Artist at XOXO Festival
• Redesigning Waxy, 2016 edition
• Quit Social Media. Your Career May Depend on It
• Social Media Is Killing Discourse Because It’s Too Much Like TV
• A look at the impact of inclusive design

Linc

• A Favor for Your Future Self
• We Need to Talk About Technical Debt
• Accessibility Whack-A-Mole
• How to have an honest one-on-one with an employee

Linc

• Bring in the Goddamn Adults Already
• The Reality of Developer Burnout
• Effective Product Roadmaps
• Abraham Lincoln’s “Blind Memorandum”
• What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining A Unicorn
• The Problem With AMP
• Hacking the Army
• Setting Expectations as a Manager
• How to Improve After a Sprint
• Let’s stop calling them ‘soft skills’
• These Are the Most Productive Countries in the World
• Does Unlimited Vacation Time Really Work?

Linc

• Product Roadmap Prioritization: Weighted or Kano?
• 20 Product Prioritization Techniques
• JWT (JSON Web Tokens) is a Bad Standard
• Index cards are pretty cool
• Why Employees At Apple And Google Are More Productive
• Anthony Bourdain Does Not Want to Owe Anybody Even a Single Dollar
• Front-end Developer Handbook 2017
• 6 Rules To Live By When You Work In An Office But Have Remote Team Members
• Fog Creek Professional Ladder
• What is the best way to evaluate a software engineer?
• JSON Feed
• Why I Never Let Employees Negotiate a Raise
• Fog Creek Compensation
• What Really Happened with Vista
• Short Story - Superiority - by Arthur C. Clarke
• The Myth of Developer Productivity
• The Old Guard
• Cannot Measure Productivity
• Hitting the High Notes
• What if companies interviewed translators the way they interview coders?
• The Unacceptable Persistence of the Digital Divide
• Let’s Talk About Your Plan to Run A Consequence-Free Company
• How Fucked Up is Your Management?
• How to Recruit
• How we pay people at Basecamp
• Basecamp: Our Rituals
• GitHub: Balanced Employee IP Agreement
• So, about this Googler’s manifesto
• So you’re surrounded by idiots. Guess who the real jerk is
• Apache vs Nginx: Practical Considerations

R_J

The 2018 Guide to Building Secure PHP Software

PHP Security Calendar 2017

Linc

• The Difference Between Amateurs and Professionals
• Want readers to start trusting you again? Stop stalking them across the internet
• Improving Our Engineering Interview Process
• Backyard Pond
• Advanced query optimization techniques on large queries
• Top 20+ MySQL Best Practices
• Hacking, Refactoring, Rewriting, and Technical Debt
• You are the product
• I significantly underestimated the power of Jeff Bezos
• Join our startup, we’ll cut your pay by 40%!
• Sleeping barber problem - Wikipedia
• Face ID, Touch ID, No ID, PINs and Pragmatic Security
• Just 22, this digital news publisher is ready to go old-school with print
• Reddit’s campaign against hate speech worked
• Refresh Is Sacred
• Software is a Long Con
• On Improving Diversity in Hiring
• Why open source software isn’t as ethical as you think it is
• Whom the Gods Would Destroy, They First Give Real-time Analytics
• The Week My Husband Left And My House Was Burgled I Secured A Grant To Begin The Project That Became BRCA1
• The privilege of risk
• We fired our top talent. Best decision we ever made.
• The Web began dying in 2014, here's how
• AMPersand
• When we only hire the best means we only hire the trendiest
• We’re making Slate’s advertising as smart as its content.
• Do Facebook and Google have control of their algorithms anymore? A sobering assessment and a warning
• May the next Etsy learn its lessons
• How to prepare for a one-on-one meeting as an employee
• The Mortality and Joy of Productivity
• Oh, shit, git!
• Net Promoter Score Considered Harmful
• How To Create A Useful Value Proposition w/ Examples
• “username or password incorrect” is bullshit
• The presence prison
• Why Good Managers Are So Rare
• So Now You’re A Manager
• How good code dies
• How to crush remote team retreats
• DOES17 (conf talk video) - How Your Systems Keep Running Day After Day
• Stimulus 1.0: A modest JavaScript framework for the HTML you already have
• Better Onboarding, Better Retention, Happier Humans
• Is PHP relevant?
• Everything Easy is Hard Again
• Why supporters pay for journalism (hint: it’s not about exclusive access)
• A beginning consultant brings skills, an experienced consultant brings value
• Be a Pal, My Dudes
• Who I want to work for

R_J

Building for sustainability with WordPress

Writing Less Damned Code

sparrowhawk66

we need agree/disagree or trust/suspect buttons, instead of like/dislike

as quoted from "Social Media Is Killing Discourse Because It’s Too Much Like TV"
What do you think @Linc ?

Linc

I've continued my series after a two-year hiatus on my blog if you care to continue following my article recommendations.

Linc

What do you think @Linc ?

I strongly agree with the premise of the article. I doubt such buttons (e.g. "trust/suspect") are even remotely sufficient to correct it, however. You don't fix rot with a new coat of paint.